WORKSHOP: The Pioneers Workshop at the 2017 ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction

研讨会：2017 年 ACM/IEEE 人机交互国际会议先锋研讨会

• 批准号: 1724537
• 负责人: Brian Scassellati
• 金额: $ 4.1万
• 依托单位: Yale University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2017
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2017-03-01 至 2018-02-28
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1724537&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: WORKSHOP; Pioneers; Workshop; 2017; ACM

This is funding to support a Pioneers Workshop (doctoral consortium) of approximately 24 graduate students (12 of whom are from the United States and therefore eligible for funding), along with distinguished research faculty. The event will take place as part of the first day of activities at the 12th International Conference on Human Robot Interaction (HRI 2017), to be held March 6-9 in Vienna, Austria, and which is jointly sponsored by ACM and IEEE. HRI is the premier conference for showcasing the very best interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary research on human-robot interaction, with roots in diverse fields including robotics, artificial intelligence, social psychology, cognitive science, human-computer interaction, human factors, engineering, and many more. It is a single-track, highly selective annual international conference that invites broad participation. Building on the "Smart City Wien" initiative, the theme of HRI 2017 is "Smart Interaction." The conference seeks contributions from a broad set of perspectives, including technical, design, methodological, behavioral, and theoretical, that advance fundamental and applied knowledge and methods in human-robot interaction, with the goal of enabling human-robot interaction through new technical advances, novel robot designs, new guidelines for design, and advanced methods for understanding and evaluating interaction. More information about the conference is available online at http://humanrobotinteraction.org/2017. The Pioneers Workshop will afford a unique opportunity for the best of the next generation of researchers in human-robot interaction to be exposed to and discuss current and relevant topics as they are being studied in several different research communities. This is important for the field, because it has been recognized that transformative advances in research in this fledgling area can only come through the melding of cross-disciplinary knowledge and multinational perspectives. Participants will be encouraged to create a social network both among themselves and with senior researchers at a critical stage in their professional development, to form collaborative relationships, and to generate new research questions to be addressed during the coming years. Participants will also gain leadership and service experience, as the workshop is largely student organized and student led. The PI has expressed his strong commitment to recruiting women and members from under-represented groups. To further ensure diversity the event organizers will consider an applicant's potential to offer a fresh perspective and point of view with respect to HRI, will recruit students who are just beginning their graduate degree programs in addition to students who are further along in their degrees, and will strive to limit the number of participants accepted from a particular institution to at most two. As a new feature this year, the organizers will also invite 3 undergraduate students (all eligible for funding) to help increase diversity in the pipeline of students entering this field. The Pioneers Workshop is designed to complement the conference, by providing a forum for students and recent graduates in the field of HRI to share their current research with their peers and a panel of senior researchers in a setting that is less formal and more interactive than the main conference. During the workshop, participants will talk about the important upcoming research themes in the field, encouraging the formation of collaborative relationships across disciplines and geographic boundaries. To these ends, the workshop format will encompass a variety of activities including three keynotes, a distinguished panel session, and breakout sessions. To start the day, all workshop attendees will briefly introduce themselves and their interests. Following the opening keynote, approximately half of the participants will present 3-minute overviews of their work, leading into an interactive poster session. This will enable all participants to share their research and receive feedback from students and senior researchers in an informal setting. The workshop organizers will facilitate the post-presentation discussion and will encourage participants to ask questions of their peers during the interactive break and poster session. After lunch, the remaining workshop participants will give their 3-minute overviews, followed by presentation of their posters during a second interactive poster session. Senior researchers (in addition to those on the panel) will be invited to attend the student presentations and poster sessions in order to provide feedback to participants, and workshop participants will be invited to present their posters during the main poster session of the HRI conference as well. The conversations between the panel and participants will continue over lunch and during dinner.

这笔资金用于支持大约24名研究生（其中12人来自美国，因此有资格获得资助）沿着杰出研究人员的先锋讲习班（博士联合会）。 该活动将作为第12届人机交互国际会议（HRI 2017）第一天活动的一部分举行，该会议将于3月6日至9日在奥地利维也纳举行，由ACM和IEEE联合赞助。 HRI是展示人机交互最好的跨学科和多学科研究的首要会议，其根源在于不同的领域，包括机器人技术，人工智能，社会心理学，认知科学，人机交互，人为因素，工程等等。 这是一个单一轨道，高度选择性的年度国际会议，邀请广泛参与。 在“智慧城市维也纳”倡议的基础上，HRI 2017的主题是“智慧互动”。“会议寻求从广泛的角度，包括技术，设计，方法论，行为和理论的贡献，推进人机交互的基础和应用知识和方法，通过新的技术进步，新颖的机器人设计，新的设计指南，以及理解和评估交互的先进方法，实现人机交互的目标。 有关会议的更多信息可在http://humanrobotinteraction.org/2017上查阅。 先锋研讨会将为下一代人机交互研究人员提供一个独特的机会，让他们接触并讨论当前和相关的主题，因为他们正在几个不同的研究社区进行研究。 这对该领域很重要，因为人们已经认识到，在这一新兴领域的研究中，变革性的进步只能通过融合跨学科知识和多国视角来实现。 将鼓励参与者在他们自己之间以及与处于专业发展关键阶段的高级研究人员建立社会网络，以形成合作关系，并提出未来几年要解决的新研究问题。 参与者还将获得领导和服务经验，因为研讨会主要是学生组织和学生领导的。 PI表示坚决致力于从代表性不足的群体中招募妇女和成员。 为了进一步确保多样性，活动组织者将考虑申请人的潜力，以提供一个新的视角和观点，就人力资源投资，将招募学生谁是刚刚开始他们的研究生学位课程除了学生谁是进一步沿着在他们的学位，并将努力限制从一个特定的机构接受的参与者人数最多为两个。 作为今年的一个新特点，主办方还将邀请3名本科生（都有资格获得资助），以帮助增加进入这一领域的学生的多样性。先锋研讨会的目的是补充会议，通过提供一个论坛，为学生和应届毕业生在HRI领域分享他们目前的研究与他们的同龄人和一个小组的高级研究人员在一个设置，这是不太正式，更具互动性比主要会议。 在研讨会期间，与会者将讨论该领域即将到来的重要研究主题，鼓励跨学科和地理边界的合作关系的形成。 为此，研讨会的形式将包括各种活动，包括三个主题演讲，一个杰出的小组会议和分组会议。 新的一天开始时，所有研讨会与会者将简要介绍自己和他们的兴趣。 在开幕式主题演讲之后，大约一半的与会者将介绍他们的工作3分钟的概述，导致一个互动海报会议。 这将使所有参与者能够分享他们的研究，并在非正式的环境中收到学生和高级研究人员的反馈。 研讨会组织者将为演讲后的讨论提供便利，并鼓励与会者在互动休息和张贴海报期间向同行提问。 午餐后，剩余的研讨会参与者将进行3分钟的概述，然后在第二次互动海报会议上展示他们的海报。 高级研究人员（除小组成员外）将被邀请参加学生演讲和海报会议，以便向与会者提供反馈，研讨会与会者将被邀请在HRI会议的主要海报会议期间展示他们的海报。 小组和与会者之间的对话将在午餐和晚餐期间继续进行。